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Braxton County Courthouse

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1881–1882, C. C. Kemble. Town Square, bounded by Main, 3rd and 4th sts. and Riverside Drive
  • Braxton County Courthouse (State Historic Preservation Office, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Steve Creasey)

When county commissioners finally replaced the courthouse burned in the Civil War, they obtained the services of Wheeling architect C. C. Kemble. His two-story brick building is a restrained exercise in classicism. Blind arches, framed in stone, decorate the first story of a projecting entrance pavilion. A stone belt course carries around the entire building, firmly delineating the first story from the piano nobile above and providing a base for unadorned brick pilasters that separate bays and define corners. A triangular pediment caps the pavilion, while a hipped roof covers the body of the courthouse. A large wooden belfry with paired, louvered openings on each face rises behind the pediment and is topped with a convex dome.

Writing Credits

Author: 
S. Allen Chambers Jr.
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Citation

S. Allen Chambers Jr., "Braxton County Courthouse", [Sutton, West Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WV-01-BX1.

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